This was the reason why I decided, as far as possible, not to accept money from the government.
C. V. RAMANThe essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment.
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It has been invariably my experience that I could count on his cooperation and sympathy in every matter concerning my scientific work.
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Success can only come to you by courageous devotion to the task lying in front of you.
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It seemed not unlikely that the phenomenon owed its origin to the scattering of sunlight by the molecules of the water.
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In the first English class I attended, Prof. E. H. Elliot, addressing me, asked if I really belonged to the Junior B. A. class, and I had to answer him in the affirmative. He then proceeded to inquire how old I was.
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We have, I think, developed an inferiority complex.
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It was my great good fortune, while I was still a student at college, to have possessed a copy of an English translation of his great work.
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Towards the end of February 1928, I took the decision of using brilliant monochromatic illumination obtained by the aid of the commercially available mercury arcs sealed in quartz tubes.
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I feel it is unnatural and immoral to try to teach science to children in a foreign language They will know facts, but they will miss the spirit.
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It seemed, indeed, that the study of light-scattering might carry one into the deepest problems of physics and chemistry.
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The Sensations of Tone.’ As is well known, this was one of Helmholtz’s masterpieces.
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And it was this belief which led to the subject becoming the main theme of our activities at Calcutta from that time onwards.
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It is not often that idealism of student days finds adequate opportunity for expression in the later life of manhood.
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We begin to realise that the molecular scattering of light in liquids may possess an astronomical significance, in fact contribute in an important degree to the observed albedo of the earth.
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I strongly believe that fundamental science cannot be driven by instructional, industrial, governmental or military pressures.
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It will not be an activity in which all people can participate.
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